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00:00:30.000 good morning it's february 23rd 2022 welcome to triggered i'm cory morgan this is our western

00:00:42.420 standards weekly or daily live show comes five days a week monday to friday starting at 11 30 a.m

00:00:48.820 i welcome the comments and interaction you know that's the great thing of being live i'm going to

00:00:52.860 start right off the bat actually i see somebody came in early uh ty f and made a comment with a

00:00:56.940 question. And it's about the Senate. He's wondering how it works. Is it the same as the

00:01:01.280 House when voting with a majority and things like that? Because the Emergencies Act now is going to

00:01:06.680 the Senate and it theoretically could get shut down in there. Any legislation actually has to

00:01:13.580 go through a few steps in Canada. It has to go through Parliament and then through the Senate

00:01:16.840 and then has to get royal assent from the Governor General. Governor General will pretty much never

00:01:21.100 say no to giving royal assent, though a lot of people seem to feel that they could pressure or

00:01:25.220 change her to do so but uh the senate they can shut something down uh quick question from somebody

00:01:31.560 else is it true that 20 senators have to sign a petition against the act to revoke it no that's

00:01:35.940 not true it will have to uh go before him it's like parliament it's very similar and if a majority

00:01:43.380 of senators support the bill it will go through and it will pass and they were appointed the

00:01:47.780 majority of them were appointed by the prime minister he calls him independent but it's bs

00:01:51.200 They're liberals. I hope. I really do. I mean, some of them might have principle and they don't

00:01:55.240 have, they can't get kicked out by the prime minister or anything like that. Some could stand

00:01:59.340 up and say, you know what? We just don't need this thing. We're going to shut this thing down.

00:02:03.940 It's finished. And they could do it. I hope so. I don't hold a lot of hope on it, but it is a

00:02:09.260 possibility. It is the chamber of sober second thought, as they put it, though. I'm certain a

00:02:14.280 lot of them aren't terribly sober. I don't blame them. If I had to sit in that place all the time,

00:02:17.280 I'd probably go back to drinking as well. So today we've got Alberta proud president. She's

00:02:22.660 coming in studio, Lindsay Seawalt. And she wrote a column on the Western Standard recently on

00:02:27.860 uneven Stephen Gilboa, our federal minister of mayhem there from Justin Trudeau, the fellow

00:02:35.380 who likes to get arrested now and then is a senior cabinet minister in the Trudeau government. It

00:02:40.340 says a lot about the priorities of that government. And then Jeff Calloway is going to join me as the

00:02:44.480 CEO of Algonaut Capital. And they run a business in the North, actually, and again, full disclosure,

00:02:50.820 it's one of the sponsors, but it's a marketplace for digital currencies. And of course, right now

00:02:55.500 is certainly a time when people are interested and looking into digital currencies and wondering

00:03:00.240 if that's the way to go. Well, Jeff's going to be able to lay out more detail how that digital

00:03:05.140 currency world works, how trading works in it, and other such things as that. So I'll get going

00:03:10.520 with what's got me going today, and I'm not really as triggered as always. You know, I'm triggered by

00:03:15.400 a lot of things, and I'm sure to rant about more of them over the course of the show. I do on

00:03:19.460 occasion like to note positive trends, if nothing else, for the immediate term, and I like right now

00:03:24.560 where the Alberta government's going. For starters, all the provincial pandemic mandates are going to

00:03:30.160 be lifted at the end of this month. We're no longer going to be compelled to be masked. Gatherings

00:03:34.400 won't be limited. Businesses can return to regular hours, and people can choose to return to their

00:03:39.220 offices. I know this should have happened long ago. I'll still maintain a better late than never

00:03:44.960 attitude here. We could be stuck under a maniac like Doug Ford, who's clearly living in abject

00:03:49.700 terror of COVID-19, or an authoritarian socialist like Rachel Notley, who's constantly signaled

00:03:54.780 she would have kept Alberta in full lockdown mode for the last two years. We'll actually be able to

00:04:00.160 get up from a table at a restaurant, walk to a washroom, and walk back again without putting a

00:04:03.940 mask on. We'll be able to communicate with neighboring tables if we choose to, and actually

00:04:08.640 stand up and join them if we like i mean i'm a married introvert so i won't be taking advantage

00:04:13.520 of those social opportunities but i'm happy that my fellow citizens will be able to enjoy those

00:04:16.800 freedoms again kids will even be able to play hockey without being assailed by the police

00:04:21.280 marvelous isn't it restaurant and bars have got to be gasping in relief as they can resume

00:04:26.000 normal operations and perhaps our tourism sector might begin to recover because they've just been

00:04:30.640 beaten on we know the government's backtracked on these reopenings before but let's celebrate

00:04:35.440 what we have so far and look to Ottawa where the real problem remains. On the federal front, Trudeau

00:04:40.000 remains insistent on keeping us in a state of martial law, though no current emergency can be

00:04:44.760 identified. Premier Kenney is going to be launching a court challenge to that, and while they don't

00:04:48.740 hold out much faith in our courts, it's at least more than the typical strongly worded letter we

00:04:52.800 get from the premier's office when the federal government's screwing us, which happens quite

00:04:56.220 often. Seven out of ten premiers in Canada are in opposition to Trudeau's power grab. Well, the

00:05:01.020 legacy media certainly doesn't like mentioning that. So not to celebrate world disorder anyways

00:05:06.200 getting back to my optimism in another way the catastrophe in Ukraine with Russia a couple of

00:05:10.460 years of idiocy in Europe and pursuing green energy sources it's made oil and gas prices skyrocket and

00:05:15.880 they're likely going to remain high. This benefits Alberta greatly for both private employers and

00:05:20.880 government. We might actually see a provincial balanced budget in the foreseeable future while

00:05:25.580 no other province can claim that. Of course with a federal government prone to stealing the assets

00:05:29.220 of citizens, that's going to put a big target on Alberta's back in the long run. But in the short

00:05:33.900 term, it's definitely good for us. Now, the provincial government has been speaking about

00:05:38.000 the need to reform the health system in order to increase capacity. This is the kind of language

00:05:43.080 we need to hear. Of course, we'll actually need to see action as well. I mean, hospital capacity

00:05:47.720 has been the prime excuse for imposing lockdowns and restrictions, and it's nuts that we haven't

00:05:51.900 seriously worked to expand it. The Kennedy government dared to open the Pandora's box

00:05:57.020 of talking about increasing private provision of service.

00:06:00.440 This has, of course, set Notley and her union bosses into a tizzy.

00:06:04.000 The NDP will only ever support pouring more money into a broken system.

00:06:06.800 Their goal is to increase union jobs at all costs, and it shows.

00:06:10.620 We need to enter this battle with the Alberta Health Service's bloated bureaucracy and the unions.

00:06:16.160 And if this move by the UCP government turns into the catalyst for that battle, all the better.

00:06:20.260 We need to change the system.

00:06:22.200 The government has plans for more support for victims of crime.

00:06:24.920 One of those aspects is a right-to-know legislation, which will keep victims in the loop as criminals go through the system.

00:06:30.880 My pub was repeatedly robbed by a gang of criminals two years ago, back when I owned a pub.

00:06:35.580 Those thugs, while they were out in bail, two of them actually murdered two people in two separate crimes.

00:06:42.180 It would have been nice to know that these criminals were loose as a victim of them, you know, in a robbery,

00:06:46.920 so I could make sure the combination on one of my locks was only one number from opening, if you know what I mean.

00:06:51.760 respecting the criminal justice system, respecting, you know, changing things, reforming it as long

00:06:57.100 overdue and respecting victims' rights. The government looks willing to end the conflict

00:07:01.060 of interest with the teachers' union too, as they're the sole disciplinary body for their

00:07:05.500 own teachers. This is long overdue and parents are more than tired of hearing about the teachers'

00:07:09.840 union giving two-year suspensions to sex-offending teachers. Again, another battle that needs to be

00:07:14.880 had. So the language is right. The UCP government sounds as if they plan to be a government

00:07:19.640 remaining true to Conservative principles. Now we also know this government can be prone to

00:07:24.600 talking tough while walking weak. Remember the Fair Deal panel? Still, we should applaud them

00:07:28.900 when they appear to be moving in the right direction. It'll give us more strength to rip

00:07:31.840 into them when they deviate from the path they promised. We may or may not see a new leader of

00:07:36.540 the UCP in the next few months. For now though, the party's moving in the right direction and

00:07:41.520 I'm guardedly optimistic. Let's set our sights for now on Ottawa where the most depressing threats

00:07:46.240 to our liberties remain and hope that our provincial government stays true to good

00:07:50.980 conservative principles. And I'm just going to need my earpiece before I bring in our news check

00:07:55.440 with Dave. There we go. And we're going to talk with our news editor, Dave Naylor, who's hammering

00:08:02.800 away there in the newsroom. Should be here in just a moment. Okay. I don't see him, but we're

00:08:11.220 going to talk to him as soon as he's there and uh there we go hey dave how you doing good you're

00:08:16.480 getting me a bit worried there cory no it was on my end you know we've got a unique thing happening

00:08:20.960 today both of my guests are coming in live and uh we thought hey i finally don't need that earpiece

00:08:26.840 to listen to somebody remotely and i'm sorry but we completely overlooked your your daily appearance

00:08:31.800 you know we take it for granted and i'm forever uh apologetic to you i guess must have been cold

00:08:36.660 at the old homestead this morning cory oh it was i'm gonna go on about that later

00:08:40.340 yeah i think i'm finally starting to thaw out but uh we got some good stories up already uh this

00:08:46.980 morning on the uh western standard online uh website cory including dramatic video from a

00:08:53.500 police shooting in calgary in the forest lawn community and uh saturday afternoon where they

00:08:59.920 were called about a man with weapons who had been attacking people they arrived at the scene to find

00:09:05.740 a young man obviously having mental issues with a knife and some sort of stick that he was using

00:09:13.500 to threaten people. The man finally stood up. The police aimed several what they call less

00:09:20.900 lethal rounds at him, basically a bean bag gun that hurts. Those had no effect on him and he

00:09:28.620 started running towards the police, stabbing a police dog repeatedly. The officers tried tasering

00:09:35.500 again him again to no effect and finally they had to use deadly force mayor gondek is questioning

00:09:42.860 the police in this this incident uh she says how they handled it brings into lots of questions

00:09:49.180 about why mental health supports weren't on the scene uh immediately so i guess mayor gondek has

00:09:55.820 a lot to learn how the police operate and maybe some questions will be answered at the police

00:10:00.780 commission meeting uh later on today in in calgary uh other stuff uh corey you may or may not be

00:10:07.820 surprised to learn that the uh the judge that refused to release freedom convoy organizer

00:10:14.380 tamara leach uh is a is a liberal she in fact ran for justin trudeau's liberal uh as a candidate

00:10:22.860 and actually lost out well that hasn't stopped her from donating to the liberal party and eventually

00:10:28.140 uh trudeau made her a judge so this is who's deciding whether or not a convoy freedom organizer

00:10:35.980 gets to go home while awaiting trial uh our military affairs analyst dave makachuk has

00:10:42.540 written a column on justin trudeau's sanctions against vladimir putin over the looming invasion

00:10:51.020 of uh uh ethi or um the ukraine excuse me um fair hint uh dave's not exactly thrilled with uh

00:11:01.020 with uh trudeau's actions that he says uh uh putin will certainly not be uh

00:11:07.420 worry worried about them in any way shape whatsoever a big day tomorrow in alberta

00:11:12.860 politics uh cory as the budget comes down we've got an advancer from our legislature reporter

00:11:18.620 Amber Goslin talking to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and people like that about what they

00:11:26.380 want to see in the budget. Our Saskatchewan reporter Lee Harding has got a story about

00:11:33.180 the mainstream media unfairly taking shots at former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford and

00:11:41.680 and Barry Cooper, a respected UFC political scientist.

00:11:47.480 And, yeah, talking about the feds freezing money,

00:11:50.900 they admit that people who donated $20 to the Freedom Convoy

00:11:55.860 could have their bank accounts frozen.

00:12:01.160 Very, very disturbing politicalization of the RCMP and the banks.

00:12:08.180 So that's all we've got up there now.

00:12:09.560 We've got more stories to come this afternoon, including our mental residents be doing a deep

00:12:16.040 dive into some fairly shocking AHS statistics on hospital closures in the province. And

00:12:23.240 she'll have that out coming up shortly. And there's some very ugly numbers in there, Corey.

00:12:30.360 Yeah, lots of ugly news, occasionally some positive news. I actually started by triggered

00:12:34.920 with being a little less triggered than usual, but you've brought me back down. I'm crabby again.

00:12:39.560 sorry well we can't always report on butterflies and sunshine all right well thank you very much

00:12:46.780 dave lots to cover as always so i'll let you get back to hammering the keyboards and yelling at

00:12:51.680 the interns and uh we'll carry on with the show yeah and we'll see you uh later on uh for the

00:12:57.280 pipeline you betcha that's right that's on this afternoon i tend to forget all right so that was

00:13:03.040 our news editor dave naylor and yeah it's just uh going great guns in the newsroom as always and as

00:13:08.760 usual. We've got a growing team. Derek's been putting ads out. If you look on the Western

00:13:13.100 Standard site, we are seeking reporters and other contributors, all sorts of things. And

00:13:17.380 subscriptions have been going through the roof. I mean, people are realizing this is where to get

00:13:22.560 the news. This is how to get the news. The mainstream is just, unfortunately, irreparably

00:13:27.740 sick. We can't repair that institution. So what do we got here? We're going to have a guest coming

00:13:35.540 soon, but I'm not ready for it yet. So we're going to start preparing for that. Where the heck

00:13:42.880 was I? So something else that we're doing with our expansion is we're moving into a larger studio

00:13:48.320 downstairs and it's got a great glass wall and I'll be able to see who's coming and going and

00:13:53.320 we're going to be able to improve that product and Nico won't be squashed just a few feet from

00:13:57.520 me for hours at a time as he is right now. Just before I get to that guest too, I want to talk

00:14:02.680 about some of those news things dave was talking about uh one of which is is that case with the

00:14:07.860 judge holding to mary leach in jail without bail uh she can't go out i mean she so if you know how

00:14:17.120 justice systems work typically they'll ask you know they'll put some conditions on say

00:14:21.020 you can't go near the organizers you can't go near the protest spots you can go home

00:14:25.500 you can't do social media postings things like that if you commit to doing those things not

00:14:29.540 further committing any offenses they'll let you out and uh and you can stay home until your trial

00:14:35.160 but they denied that even though Litch was cooperative in in the courtroom she said she

00:14:40.120 would uh abide by conditions and was willing to do so but the judge who was appointed by Trudeau

00:14:46.740 who ran for Trudeau said no we're going to keep you in jail where you can't speak where you're

00:14:51.560 silenced where you're kept from your family where you're kept from your home because you were a

00:14:55.300 convoy organizer, a threat to society. Now in parallel, David Zikrak, look him up. This is the

00:15:04.060 guy who ran through protesters in Manitoba against convoy protesters, a left-wing lunatic. He's got

00:15:10.340 a terrible history, this man on social media and online. And I should say allegedly, he's been

00:15:15.240 charged with running through those people. Terribly dangerous. Only one person got injured. The video

00:15:20.140 was very disturbing. This is a dangerous person. This is the sort of person you got to wonder

00:15:24.700 whether you could safely release them out into society or not. He was given bail. Within days,

00:15:31.220 he's out on the streets, walking around. They did say he's not allowed to drive. That's good.

00:15:37.980 You know, with luck, he's not going to try and kill people further, again, if that's allegedly

00:15:42.520 what he had done. But what a double standard. I mean, again, if you were a judge, you're sitting

00:15:47.680 on a seat. Who seems to be more dangerous? A person who was organizing protests, who was

00:15:53.900 saying again that they're not going to do anything further until things go through the courts,

00:15:57.400 let them go home to their seized bank accounts and try to live on, or a person who took a motor

00:16:02.380 vehicle and literally drove it through a number of people who are holding a peaceful protest. Well,

00:16:09.320 in Canada, apparently the motor vehicle terrorist is the lesser of the dangerous people.

00:16:17.020 You know, Canada's system's a mess. There's no doubt about it. As other people are pointing out,

00:16:20.280 you know the judge the conflict of interest on her part that's the way the system works

00:16:24.620 unfortunately you you run for the liberal party and you know what conservatives are guilty of it

00:16:29.360 as well if you get cannon fodder candidates ones who are just going to run to fill a spot even

00:16:34.600 though they don't have a high chance of winning if the government if their party forms government

00:16:37.880 you get the reward later if you look for who ends up being ambassadors or gets uh postings on

00:16:43.960 commissions and things like that that pay very well or lawyers who end up as judges it's not

00:16:49.320 terribly uncommon that they took a run for the party in a riding where they didn't have a good

00:16:54.140 chance of winning, and that's their reward for it later. Unfortunately, particularly when it

00:16:58.540 comes to judges, we end up with some people on the bench who are conceivably very beholden to

00:17:05.740 the administration and the party in power, and it's not a good place to be. Canada, you know,

00:17:12.080 the Americans are much better with the politicization of their judges. We try to keep

00:17:16.760 justices to be as impartial as possible it's a difficult system when it comes that way

00:17:21.440 and uh it's hard to avoid but in this case uh you know having somebody who was uh actually ran for

00:17:28.680 the liberal party uh sitting on the bench and ruling on this is distressing and it's hard to

00:17:33.360 believe that that wouldn't have impacted this judge's decision not to have given bail to tamara

00:17:40.060 litch so hopefully she gets out soon and again they'll let the justice system move forward with

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00:18:44.100 we've got lindsay seawalt from alberta proud in studio again you've been here before and you guys

00:18:50.180 have been busy and uh speaking of holding liberal uh ministers feet to the fire you wrote a column

00:18:55.860 for the western standard talking about uneven steven so do you want to expand on what that

00:19:00.500 was about well he's unbalanced um and he's uneven and we like to call him uneven steven but you

00:19:05.780 might know him as Stephen Guibault, who is our Minister of Environment. You know, it's kind of

00:19:11.540 struck a chord with a lot of people when he was when he was brought into cabinet, I think it was

00:19:15.460 2019. And then more recently appointed to this position. So if you don't know who he is, he's a

00:19:20.740 former convicted eco radical, it's really the best way to put it, of Greenpeace and Equitair. And

00:19:27.140 he's got these really big, crazy ideas to phase out oil and gas, potentially within the next 18

00:19:33.380 months although he's tried to backpedal on that and and and we're just calling him out for for

00:19:38.580 who he is we think his his policies and his general message um and he and trudeau together

00:19:43.700 just are very dangerous for alberta energy and oil and gas we produce the the cleanest energy

00:19:49.540 in the world right here uh provides jobs it makes the country go around we're the economic engine

00:19:54.420 of the country we talk about this all the time and we're going to stand up for alberta energy

00:19:58.580 and we're going to take a stand against uneven Stephen.

00:20:01.280 Well, it's good.

00:20:02.020 And he's put into such a, I mean, he's in a senior cabinet position.

00:20:05.940 I mean, everybody's seen those images out there of him in his orange jumpsuit,

00:20:09.340 grinning ear to ear too.

00:20:11.140 I mean, this is a man completely unapologetic for doing exactly what his government now

00:20:16.500 has invoked a form of martial law to ban other people from doing,

00:20:20.080 which is civil disobedience.

00:20:21.200 I think he was hanging off of the CN Tower with a bunch of protesters,

00:20:25.380 if I recall, like a bunch of dingleberries up there against oil and gas or something in the

00:20:29.760 past. And this is a man now who has got Trudeau's ear. And I mean, what message is that sending to

00:20:36.140 the world? What message is that sending to our investors, our investors in Alberta? It's the

00:20:40.640 wrong message. Absolutely. I mean, it makes it difficult. We've got a time when energy prices

00:20:45.620 are getting higher all around the world. Gas, of course, I mean, with the Russia-Ukraine conflict,

00:20:50.480 I mean, we don't want to take advantage of a terrible, dangerous situation, but it affects

00:20:54.160 world commodities and Alberta and BC, Saskatchewan are all very well placed to produce a lot of

00:20:59.860 energy to fill that void. And I mean, as those prices are rising, but when we've got somebody

00:21:03.340 that hostile in Ottawa, it's going to be hard to draw those investors to bring in the capital to

00:21:07.020 get everything up and on stream. Yeah, I agree. And, you know, we're poised for success this year,

00:21:11.040 2022, I think could be our year in Alberta, the best year that we've had in a long time.

00:21:15.240 You know, our, our budget was based on $30 a barrel oil and here we are approaching $100 a

00:21:20.600 like it's an exciting time for us to come through this pandemic you know hopefully we're we're

00:21:25.160 through it right we're just about through it and um it's onwards and upwards but you know when at

00:21:30.120 the federal level we have these archaic fossil ideas from uneven stephen and trudeau to ban

00:21:36.600 block and barricade i mean this is 1970s style of activism like it's not working anymore their

00:21:42.600 ideas are fossil ideas so we like again we have the best energy right here our pipelines are the

00:21:49.080 safest way to transport it and we stand by that and their alternatives are unreliable

00:21:55.400 supplementary forms of energy like solar panels and wind turbines and you know even electric

00:22:00.920 vehicles when you look at all the little components that are used to make these

00:22:06.040 some of these parts are made you know in countries where they employ child

00:22:10.280 child labor and and they've got these chemicals leaching into the ground i mean it just makes

00:22:15.320 no sense. Like, I think, I think, I think people are pushing past this and, and they're starting

00:22:20.100 to see, you know, the, the leftist elites and call them out for what they are, which is trying

00:22:24.400 to demonize our oil sands. Well, and, and, and likewise with their natural gas and other

00:22:28.460 resources. I mean, we're going to be talking about that at length of the pipeline later on this

00:22:32.060 afternoon, ironically named program of ours that we run every week, but the CGL activity, which

00:22:38.040 isn't making nearly enough news. There was an organized eco-terrorist attack upon a pipeline

00:22:44.760 construction facility. And the government's been virtually silent on that because these are the

00:22:49.260 kind of people, not to say, look, Gilboa got that far with, you know, physically assailing, but

00:22:53.920 they're sympathetic to that sort of activity. You know, I mean, it's hard to get our stuff to market.

00:22:59.960 We, liquid natural gas is a huge growing market right now. We don't have a single facility built

00:23:04.940 yet. We've been talking about it for decades, but we're allowing these activists to keep stalling

00:23:08.480 it and blocking it. Likewise with the Trans Mountain Pipeline. And now the costs are going

00:23:13.240 through the roof. This thing isn't done yet. I'm not going to believe that thing's going to run

00:23:16.320 until we see oil in it. And right now the government's saying that they're not going to

00:23:20.800 spend any more money on it. That's distressing as well. Yeah, absolutely. And let's not forget

00:23:24.720 that the European Union has declared natural gas and green energy. So it's time for our Canadian

00:23:29.700 government to get on board. So, you know, well, look at what we're seeing though on the federal

00:23:35.540 stage, right? So it all really fits together. Yeah. And it's distressing. I mean, we're coming

00:23:40.580 into a period of, it's just ideologically selfish and wrong to shut in petrochemical resources right

00:23:47.920 now when we need them and the world needs them. I mean, the world's coming into recovery from the

00:23:52.280 pandemic. So what these guys want to say, and that's what really ticks me off with them. They

00:23:57.380 want to cut off developing nations from clean burning, relatively inexpensive energy sources,

00:24:03.400 such as liquid natural gas. They don't want them to have that. They feel that somehow they're going

00:24:07.560 to build windmills or continue to burn animal dung and wood as an energy source I mean it's almost a

00:24:14.860 form of cruelty in my view I mean I know I'm adding my editorial but to have a federal government

00:24:19.240 that's so focused on this crazed shutting in of petrochemical resources we got to call them out

00:24:24.700 on it well it's an elitist globalist ideology you know and what we're saying over here at Alberta

00:24:29.220 proudest we've got all the answers right in front of us it's called carbon tech it's taking the co2

00:24:33.900 right out of the air and turning it into actual usable everyday products and we have that ability

00:24:40.020 right here and last time I checked you know a carbon tax didn't take any co2 out of the air so

00:24:44.920 no and we don't get it you know the credit that quite often happens I mean the oil field the the

00:24:50.600 energy sector has been bending over backwards trying to find ways whether it's carbon tech you

00:24:55.060 know for converting carbon into usable products or sequestration or just the reduction of the

00:24:59.500 production of carbon at all in the first place, the amount of emissions per barrel has been

00:25:04.780 dropping dramatically over the years. Absolutely. And we can win the race to net zero emissions.

00:25:09.420 We can do it right here. But the government keeps moving the goalposts. I know. And it gives more

00:25:13.840 distance incentive for investors to bother coming in. And again, Gilboa seems to be right at the

00:25:18.380 core of this. I mean, him and actually Butts, who often has Trudeau's ear, because he's got a history

00:25:23.120 of eco activism behind them as well they all do so yeah well we can we can hope you know

00:25:29.020 the events over the last couple of weeks and um everything that's taken place in auto i mean maybe

00:25:34.800 finally we have what we have the ear of of the complacent voters out there and maybe maybe this

00:25:39.960 time we're going to get there so alberta proud i mean we'll explain you know a little bit more

00:25:44.320 about your organization like who are you and what are you up to uh to try and push back how are you

00:25:48.500 helping engage people to to stand up for these resources. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, most people

00:25:53.260 who know us know us because of our Facebook following. We have a Facebook following of

00:25:56.680 over 200,000 people. We're very grassroots. We're run by everyday Albertans like me,

00:26:03.340 a mother of three, small town girl, and we connect with everyday Albertans, right? The guys out in

00:26:08.100 the oil sounds and, you know, the mums at home with kids. And I think, you know, our basic message

00:26:14.560 is we stand for common sense governments,

00:26:17.460 smaller governments, more affordable governments.

00:26:20.040 We're calling out the hypocrisy of elitist politicians

00:26:23.760 and celebrities who are calling out our oil sands

00:26:27.060 and that sort of thing.

00:26:28.020 So we stand up for everything Alberta

00:26:30.040 from our beautiful landscape and our mountains

00:26:33.260 and our factories to our farms to our pipelines.

00:26:37.060 And we really do stand up for more Alberta autonomy.

00:26:40.520 That is a really big piece of what we're doing.

00:26:43.460 We want to have more say in our decision making, in how our money gets spent.

00:26:49.720 For example, last fall during the election, we pushed really hard for an equalization referendum, you know, moving in that direction.

00:26:58.840 And yeah, we just want more say.

00:27:01.580 Later on this afternoon, actually, we're launching another campaign, which is pushing, calling on Premier Kenney to go back to his roots and stand up for having our own police here in Alberta.

00:27:11.180 I think everything that we've seen in Ottawa over the last weekend and the aggression that was displayed by, you know, Trudeau calling on police and RCMP to behave that way is just, it's disgusting.

00:27:23.980 It was upsetting.

00:27:24.680 And we just, we think it's a really good opportunity to go back to that conversation and push the premier to take some steps in that direction.

00:27:32.620 It's good.

00:27:33.040 Because, I mean, the Fair Deal panel, and I'm on their case a lot about that.

00:27:36.060 I mean, they went around.

00:27:37.000 There was definitely support on the ground from Albertans.

00:27:38.920 We want to see these measures.

00:27:40.720 We've been talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking.

00:27:42.640 And it's getting your time to move, Premier Kennedy.

00:27:44.580 Let's get on with this thing.

00:27:46.180 I think, you know, with the pandemic, it was hard to kind of come out with these big ideas and that sort of thing.

00:27:50.200 But now that we're getting through this, now that we're poised for such economic success in this province,

00:27:55.980 let's get on to some of these big ideas because we need more autonomy.

00:27:59.200 Albertans deserve more.

00:28:00.400 We need we need a better deal.

00:28:01.900 Yeah. And we're getting that breathing space with the energy and commodity prices right now.

00:28:06.100 So, you know, it's time to focus.

00:28:07.620 not worrying about just looking at the cupboard and trying to figure out how to make ends meet

00:28:10.820 we've got the means let's let's do some stuff as i was saying outside of where you guys have gone

00:28:14.500 but it's time to look into things like the teachers union and their uh disciplinary

00:28:19.860 abilities things like that get back to where you were it's not all pandemic pandemic pandemic

00:28:24.500 uh part of the name i guess though is that alberta proud i mean we're proud of ourselves we've been

00:28:28.580 always we love it here treated as if we should hang our heads in shame though there is a lot of

00:28:32.260 of that from patronizing central Canada and leadership so yeah and I think we've seen that

00:28:37.880 ever since the economic downturn you know what's it been now seven eight years of that and and we

00:28:43.300 were treated as outcasts and where was where was Ottawa where was the east and eastern politicians

00:28:48.860 and standing up for us at that time and if you look at now we're distracted by the pandemic

00:28:53.040 we're distracted by the freedom convoy we're distracted by Trudeau shenanigans but we got

00:28:58.400 to take a look at who's our friends here. I mean, Premier Legault and the Quebec government want to

00:29:02.500 brand hydrocarbons. This is ridiculous. They want to ban the exploration of that. They want to put

00:29:07.280 a stop to Alberta companies going out there, discovering these resources, and then they want

00:29:11.680 to put a stop to it. I mean, we can't forget to look at what's really going on and how damaging

00:29:17.380 these leftist, elitist governments are. No, I mean, it was this morning we got up. It was in

00:29:22.420 the minus 30s you know the only thing keeping us alive we're petrochemical products I mean let's

00:29:28.380 let's face it that's a reality I mean we've got to inject reality into the discourse and with

00:29:34.500 people as you said it's not even Stephen Gabo are you're not going to get reality from him oh

00:29:39.300 absolutely not there's nothing relatable they do they can't relate to the average Albertan the

00:29:42.780 average Canadian so and you know we've got we've got our carbon taxes hitting an all-time high

00:29:47.240 next month it's going to hit a 170 a ton like million a ton it's a I mean where do we go from

00:29:54.220 here I mean you got your heating bill last month I got mine can barely can barely afford to pay it

00:29:58.400 you know Albertans are having Canadians are having to make a choice between putting food

00:30:02.900 on the table and paying and keeping the lights on keeping the heat on yeah that's a good reminder

00:30:07.060 that is April 1st when that keeps going up with this and they lied they said it was going to cap

00:30:11.420 out at 50 bucks no it didn't you know they just keep adding to it and as we've seen in BC they've

00:30:16.160 the carbon tax for a long time it doesn't work it doesn't work at all bc's emissions have not gone

00:30:21.040 down so well how does the tax take carbon dioxide out of the air how is the tax reducing global

00:30:26.400 emissions it's not it's the gig is up it's false yeah it takes money out of your wallet it's all

00:30:31.440 it does and and makes us a less viable place to set up raise your family or invest dollars i mean

00:30:38.160 i think that's part of the intent they they want to drum us out of business and it's unfortunate

00:30:42.240 But, you know, April 1st, it's no mistake that they chose that and not just for the April Fool's.

00:30:47.300 The irony is not lost.

00:30:48.760 But the other part is that's the time of the season also when it gets warmer.

00:30:53.600 So our energy bills are going to come down, you know, and we're not going to crank up the air conditioning until July or August, perhaps, if we've got it.

00:30:59.900 So, no, there's no mistakes.

00:31:01.100 They don't do things by mistake.

00:31:02.220 They do the things wrong often, but not by mistake.

00:31:04.980 So let's just hike that cost so people don't quite notice it on their bill until it skyrockets in July.

00:31:09.560 and they keep sneaking in incrementally you know frog in water and the only way they get away with

00:31:13.720 it is we don't call them out so that's what uh you guys have been doing yeah we're gonna keep

00:31:17.320 hitting them hard and you know we encourage people to follow us on social media and visit

00:31:21.640 albertaproud.org and sign up on our email list we send stuff we run campaigns all the time

00:31:26.760 and uh we encourage ideas from you uh funny memes um those of you who follow us on facebook

00:31:32.040 probably notice we we send out a lot we we we get people in because we attract them with humor you

00:31:37.400 know if you can't laugh about all of this then what's the point so oh yeah i love memes i mean

00:31:41.560 you can get a serious message into a funny package you can and that's how people are reading they're

00:31:45.240 reading shorter funnier more more visuals and and it works it's a great way to connect with people

00:31:50.120 oh yeah i mean for those who don't want to read one of my long scowling columns i mean there are

00:31:54.040 some of those you can do both as well and those memes can inspire i mean i can look at a meme

00:31:57.640 sometimes and that's what gets the vein pulsing and i have to start hammering out a piece and

00:32:02.200 uh they can get a message across but yeah i've been to the alberta proud you know facebook site

00:32:05.480 quite often i've stolen memes off you guys and then throw them out on twitter yes you know get

00:32:08.920 out and share them but it's it's modern communications it's the way things work and

00:32:12.680 people do things in bites so you guys are doing a great job so thank you so are you guys like we're

00:32:16.360 i think you know um to all the viewers out there watching i just i mean keep up with the western

00:32:21.800 standard um all these online publications that are you know away from alternative media um there's

00:32:28.040 polling out the other day that the majority of canadians don't trust mainstream media any longer

00:32:32.360 and i think we need to look to alternative media sources um like you guys so keep doing it we're

00:32:38.040 gonna we're stubborn that way well thank you very much for coming in it was good to see you again

00:32:41.720 today thanks for having me yeah you bet and again we'll be in the new studio i'm certain by the next

00:32:45.800 time we get you back in so there'll be a little more space and we'll have a good chat then looking

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00:33:34.500 Okay, so that was Lindsay Seawalt of Alberta Proud, and they do have a website as well,

00:33:38.820 and I believe a Twitter presence, but as she said, there's a couple hundred people follow them,

00:33:42.260 a couple hundred thousand people follow them on Facebook, and that's where they post things and

00:33:46.980 keep up with things. Plus, they do submit guest columns to publications such as ours,

00:33:50.940 and we get them out there. So check these guys out, and yeah, they're standing up for us,

00:33:56.560 and fighting the good fight. You know, a lot of all what they're talking about too can apply to

00:34:00.440 Saskatchewan, BC. We're all in that same resource-based place and we're all dealing with a

00:34:06.260 hostile federal government. So, you know, getting back to that, in case you hadn't noticed,

00:34:11.100 I mentioned that with Lindsay, it is cold as hell out there. So let's take a moment to give thanks

00:34:16.520 to our petrochemical energy sources, those things that are keeping us alive today. And there's that

00:34:22.420 that great Alberta Twitter account, Reliable Alberta. It's a reliable AB, and they give

00:34:27.280 regular updates. I believe it's some sort of bot. It's beyond my technical means. I'm on Twitter all

00:34:31.320 the time, by the way, but this one gives updates on what's keeping us all from freezing to death

00:34:35.900 right now. And they put out numbers on where our power is coming from and what percentage of it's

00:34:40.660 coming from different sources. So I grabbed the numbers before the show, and at that moment, 85.7%

00:34:47.520 of Alberta's electricity is coming from fossil fuels. Wind is at 49.9% capacity. So it's halfway

00:34:55.120 capacity. It's kind of breezy out there. That makes up 10% of our generation. Solar, this is

00:35:01.380 an easy one to read, 0.0% capacity and producing, of course, 0% of our total generation. And we are

00:35:10.000 importing 511 megawatts or four and a half percent of our energy. So we're actually getting,

00:35:14.600 even though we're an energy capital as a province, somehow we're importing some of it to make up for

00:35:18.800 things. I guess probably all those solar panels that are doing absolutely nothing right now as

00:35:24.320 we speak. Decades. It's been decades. I mean, I was young when I remember talking about subsidizing

00:35:30.620 these solar projects and these windmills and things that were going to take us all off the

00:35:34.900 fossil fuels. Guys, we aren't even close. If we had switched and transitioned all the way over to that

00:35:39.540 as Al Gore wanted and other individuals, right now we'd be freezing to death. We'd be splitting

00:35:44.140 part of the furniture in the home and burning it to try and keep warm. So check those guys out,

00:35:49.000 you know, that reliable AB on Twitter. They are a good account worth following and keeping up on

00:35:53.980 those things. So let's see, yeah, Corey B. Morgan, Nico has put that up there. Follow me on Twitter.

00:35:59.140 That's one of my favorite places to vent and get out there and interact with people, though,

00:36:03.520 if we're not interacting on the comments here. Twitter, again, it can be a bit of a cesspool,

00:36:08.040 but it's a great place to see news as it breaks and keep up with things. Okay, somewhere more

00:36:13.280 of the news here. Banks have frozen nearly $8 million now in accounts held by the Freedom

00:36:18.800 Convoy trucker supporters. It's from the Department of Finance. They disclosed it yesterday and they

00:36:23.760 did confirm that donations, as Dave mentioned that, as little as 20 bucks could trigger

00:36:28.380 retribution if the cash was contributed after it was declared in an illegal assembly on February

00:36:35.160 15th. As it said, they said it would be unlikely that someone who gave $20 three weeks ago or even

00:36:41.660 $20 post would have been captured by a freeze, said the assistant deputy finance minister,

00:36:47.140 but also said it's not impossible. So that's how brutal it could get. If you gave $20 on a whim,

00:36:54.440 you didn't look deeply into the issues or didn't really think about how they're declaring things

00:36:58.000 illegal or legal or whatnot. You reached in and just felt, I want to support these guys. I think

00:37:02.340 their peaceful thing is a good cause. I want to add a couple bucks to their Bounty Castle fund.

00:37:07.460 you could be finding yourself right now unable to pay your mortgage, unable to buy groceries,

00:37:13.900 unable to make your car payment. You could be having your life ruined.

00:37:18.380 And people understating, you know, oh, it's not martial law. B.S., it's not martial law.

00:37:24.140 I went into that yesterday. When you suspend civil rights, when you suspend civil law,

00:37:32.300 It's martial law.

00:37:33.700 And that's what they've done.

00:37:35.340 I mean, they can seize your money without a warrant, without any oversight, without any second check.

00:37:41.760 I mean, where are they getting the lists for this?

00:37:43.400 You know, where this $20 went here and there, pressuring banks?

00:37:47.980 That's martial law, guys.

00:37:50.220 And we're stuck under it.

00:37:52.400 And so somebody could find themselves in terrible financial distress if they even donated $20 to a cause that the prime minister doesn't like.

00:38:01.500 What an insane world we're stuck in.

00:38:05.160 Now, of course, they tried to make their excuse saying, well, we're saving Canada from sedition.

00:38:10.700 These people were going to take over the government if we left them there.

00:38:13.240 You could tell, you know, all those people waving flags and sitting in bouncy castles and hot tubs.

00:38:18.280 They were definitely on the brink of storming Parliament and taking it over or breaking away a part of the nation.

00:38:24.860 Come on.

00:38:26.020 And there was a Senate committee that was heard, you know, talking about that.

00:38:30.760 And apparently, it's a secret cabinet.

00:38:34.780 There's evidence of sedition, but it's confidential information justifying the police actions.

00:38:39.820 And they won't show the senators what this information is.

00:38:44.280 Well, how are they supposed to rule on whether or not this emergency is called for if they won't be given the evidence, the facts?

00:38:51.120 These are the senators.

00:38:51.880 These are the guys determining whether this act is coming or going.

00:38:55.880 Again, I would say you should absolutely just vote against it.

00:38:58.160 obviously, I would say they're absolutely lying to you. If they had the information, they'd be

00:39:01.700 more than happy to put it out there, wouldn't they? They want to justify the thuggery. They

00:39:06.360 want to justify the arrests of hundreds of Canadian citizens. They want to justify trampling

00:39:11.480 them with horses and pepper spraying them and seizing their bank accounts, publicly shaming

00:39:16.480 them, holding people without bail. So if they had evidence that this was to protect us from a big

00:39:22.180 movement to sedition, show us. Show the senators. No, they won't even show them. That tells me

00:39:29.440 they don't have it. They don't have it. Probably some garbage like, oh, we had somebody monitoring

00:39:34.300 a Facebook group and somebody said, let's take over the government. And, you know, there was an

00:39:37.780 anonymous commenter, but it was to be taken seriously, right? Come on. It's nuts. But of

00:39:43.020 course, we do have a member of parliament who went on with that stupid internet rumor that

00:39:46.940 Honk honk means hail Hitler. Come on. This is what our policy is down to. We are invoking

00:39:52.220 martial law on the thinnest possible evidence. It's absurd and it's dangerous. And if they get

00:40:00.520 away with it now, what excuse are they going to use to do it down the road? You know, people say

00:40:06.260 a slippery slope argument is shallow. Well, it's a real one. Look at the precedent we're setting

00:40:10.960 right now. An extremely dangerous one. Every time Trudeau gets upset with something,

00:40:16.940 you can call martial law. Invoke the Emergencies Act. We know Mr. Singh will more than happily

00:40:24.960 support him. That's all you need now. You know, there's no other sense of oversight. And as

00:40:29.860 Nico's put up, yeah, in about six or seven minutes, we'll have Jeff Calloway coming in. So I'll

00:40:34.440 talk about a little more stuff. Let's see what some of these commenters, somebody saying FOI,

00:40:38.080 Pamela Jones, Kenny, a Freedom of Information request started implementing them. We put them

00:40:43.700 out there and uh there is again legislation but you know what happens with freedom for information

00:40:48.740 and we try uh in fact melanie did one with the city of calgary recently melanie wrist in here at

00:40:53.380 the at the standard and she got back a bunch of baloney and didn't get the information uh that

00:40:58.420 she wanted you see uh if you've ever seen some other foa requests what they'll do is send back

00:41:03.060 a document and it'll say here it all is and they've redacted just about everything on it so it's all

00:41:06.900 blacked out and here's you know a few sentences uh email from this person to this person at this

00:41:10.820 date, but once you get past dear such and such, it's gone. Otherwise, they might just say no,

00:41:17.880 because it affects national security. That's what I'm talking about with that BS evidence of

00:41:22.320 sedition. You see, they're going to use that excuse for anybody trying to dig deeper. They

00:41:25.320 won't even tell senators. So they won't tell a senator. They're not going to tell us. We can

00:41:32.560 keep trying though, and we will. Another thing they like doing with freedom for information

00:41:36.080 requests, I believe we put one out for, because they were always talking about this evidence of

00:41:40.440 checking uh wastewater in cities you know and how it was going to indicate whether the pandemic was

00:41:45.880 on the rise of the fall and we wanted to see that information we wanted to see the nuts and bolts of

00:41:49.960 what's going on there and we put the request in and they came back with because you got to pay

00:41:53.400 for these and they said okay yeah we could do that but it'll cost you i think it was like twelve

00:41:56.760 thousand dollars they said it's like hey we're doing really well at the standard but we don't

00:42:01.560 have 12 grand laying around for a freedom of information request and they know that

00:42:05.160 That's their way of saying, we abide by the act. We respect freedom of information, but it's going to cost a lot. Come on. It's not the days where you're going to have to send file clerks for three weeks to go digging around in a dusty basement to get this information. You can put one bureaucrat on it for probably 20 minutes and pull up what we wanted. That's just their way of saying we're not going to share it with you.

00:42:25.320 And yeah, we had a Quebec Senator, Mark Gold. He said, frankly, it's clear all the country is affected by this movement. And he's the government representative in there. And he claimed cabinet had secret reports justifying its February 14th order, calling it a public emergency.

00:42:42.860 Well, show us.

00:42:44.380 Show your fellow senators.

00:42:47.620 I mean, this is just your word, Mr. Gold.

00:42:49.440 I'm afraid the word of a liberal senator is crap.

00:42:52.440 The word of a liberal member of parliament is crap.

00:42:55.220 Certainly the word of your leader, Trudeau, is crap.

00:42:58.080 We need evidence.

00:42:59.000 We need to see something.

00:43:01.320 This mad rush to grab power.

00:43:03.420 And I've been watching even the Globe and Mail, you know, and other liberal-friendly publications are starting to say,

00:43:07.660 what's your reasoning for this Emergencies Act?

00:43:10.760 We need a reason.

00:43:11.640 Ottawa's cleared out. The border's not locked anymore. There's nothing going on. We're stuck

00:43:18.120 under martial law for 30 days at this rate. Why? Why are you maintaining this on us? You and that

00:43:24.760 worthless, spineless man, Jagmeet Singh. Yeah, the left would be getting upset with me when I keep

00:43:30.740 poking at Jagmeet Singh. Well, too bad. Your leader's a dishrag. You know, Tommy Douglas,

00:43:37.100 I talked about it the other day.

00:43:38.160 He was the founder of the NDP.

00:43:39.900 He was the main man.

00:43:41.340 He brought the Canadian health care thing.

00:43:43.240 He's an icon.

00:43:44.020 He's a god to them.

00:43:46.640 He opposed the War Measures Act back in 1970

00:43:49.780 when there were bombs going off,

00:43:51.160 when people were getting murdered.

00:43:52.800 Because they're trying to say it's principle now

00:43:54.200 for the NDP to support the use of this kind of act.

00:43:57.260 Tommy Douglas would not have supported this for a second.

00:44:00.000 You know, the old liberal NDP, I should say,

00:44:03.860 they were labor leaders.

00:44:04.840 these acts typically were turned against them it was usually against like the Winnipeg protests

00:44:11.020 when they came out back in the 20s I think it was when there were general strikes and the

00:44:16.660 governments would send thugs out to beat people down on the behest of industrialists and rich

00:44:22.780 individuals that's what protecting the citizens you know it was important and it came first and

00:44:28.880 the NDP doesn't do that anymore now Singh is just hand in hand with Justin hey let's suspend civil

00:44:34.380 rights over bouncy castles. What an embarrassment. And the mainstream media, you know, I love bashing

00:44:41.920 them. It's not just self-interest that's driving people to us. They've been horrible. They've been

00:44:46.140 terrible. I talked about that fight the other day, you know, with the New York Times, a very liberal

00:44:51.100 publication, and they dared to point out that people were arrested at gunpoint in Ottawa.

00:44:58.160 And holy cow, the columnists, even supposed freelancers, Ling, and others,

00:45:05.580 oh, it's a lie, it's BS, and they called about particularly CBC ones and buts.

00:45:10.240 And it turned out, here's all the pictures.

00:45:11.820 Actually, yes, it really happened.

00:45:13.300 There's no retraction, no apology.

00:45:16.040 But why didn't the mainstream media have any pictures of those gunpoint arrests?

00:45:20.440 They did have people on the ground.

00:45:21.940 They had people all over.

00:45:22.700 They got the resources.

00:45:23.520 You ever see a CBC crew?

00:45:24.720 Holy cow.

00:45:25.100 we go out duct taping cameras to tripods to get our live footage out there. We're getting better.

00:45:31.000 But I mean, CBC, they got a small army of people. Somehow none of them saw any of those gunpoint

00:45:35.560 arrests. And in fact, they called anybody who reported on them liars. They obviously saw the

00:45:41.780 gunpoint arrests. They chose not to document it. They chose not to share with Canadians.

00:45:46.720 They chose not to report on it. They chose not to do their job. And then they tried cover up

00:45:52.220 when somebody, a foreign publication, actually did their job

00:45:56.040 for them. That's why independent media is

00:46:00.080 so important. Because the mainstream media is corrupt.

00:46:04.760 It's broken. And I mean, there may still be some good journalists

00:46:08.140 in there. They've got to pay their bills. They're staying in because they want the security

00:46:12.000 of the job. But they've got to just weep at night at the

00:46:16.160 garbage they're forced to deliver now to make a living. Ignore

00:46:20.120 them go away from them leave them and as nico's brought up go to the western standard online.com

00:46:25.720 take out a membership guys ten dollars a month you know we've been doing great the members

00:46:30.360 support us we can get that better gear i won't have to worry about derek cutting his finger again

00:46:34.520 as we rush to set up a tripod because i'll buy a better unit for it just keep those memberships

00:46:39.640 coming in pre-trial for two weeks if you haven't signed up already and you'll get full unfettered

00:46:45.400 access beyond the paywall and be able to see all of our products, columns, breaking news, all of

00:46:51.800 those things. And it also supports us so we can keep getting more reporters on the ground and

00:46:56.880 covering things because we need them, obviously. If we don't have them on the ground, the mainstream

00:47:00.120 media won't report these things for us. And then we end up missing out. I mean, what a big

00:47:06.200 distinction, right? Whether there was firearms and gunpoint arrests or not, you know, this is a yes

00:47:12.280 no question. And the mainstream media actually thought they would get away with calling the

00:47:15.740 other the liars. I guess they thought nobody else would have taken pictures of that.

00:47:20.240 But they did. And they embarrassed themselves.

00:47:24.520 And now let's talk about, you know, our Canadian diplomats abroad. Oh, okay, good. We're actually,

00:47:29.320 I think we're going to get on to our next guest right away. Speaking of protecting assets and

00:47:33.380 government coming after our ability to take care of ourselves. And that is Jeff Calloway with

00:47:41.420 Algonaut Capital. And we're going to expand on the complicated, but not so complicated once you

00:47:48.240 get it laid out to you, world of marketplaces for digital currencies and other assets. So we'll

00:47:52.820 run a quick ad here and Jeff is going to join me.

00:47:57.360 Algonaut is owned by Algonaut. This is great new technology just coming online now in the

00:48:03.660 digital currency world. Algonaut is a great way for you to use the digital currency Algorand

00:48:10.080 in your day-to-day transactions.

00:48:12.520 Can you imagine a world where we don't have to buy a cup of coffee

00:48:16.160 using the federal dollar?

00:48:17.680 And you don't even have to use the American federal dollar.

00:48:19.920 You don't have to use the euro or the pound sterling.

00:48:23.020 You can use real money, digital currencies

00:48:25.620 that are not at the beck and call of governments and inflation.

00:48:29.040 Algadex is making digital currencies usable in a day-to-day basis.

00:48:34.720 Okay, so there was the ad for Algodex. And we're going to go a little further into what Algodex is

00:48:44.080 and what they provide and what they can do. I've got Jeff Calloway in here, the CEO of Algonaut

00:48:49.640 Capital. And I just want to frame this and point out, I mean, we're in a crazed period where the

00:48:54.380 government is actually coming in and taking people's assets. They're taking their bank

00:48:59.220 balances. They're leaving people in some terrible positions. There's definitely, you know, there was

00:49:04.300 almost a small bank run there recently over this and people are looking for new

00:49:08.260 ways to store their assets so that's kind of what you guys are facilitating I

00:49:11.920 guess just to begin with in a sense yeah well to begin to be clear like

00:49:16.660 cryptocurrency in general has really grown in a lot of prevalence and

00:49:21.640 exposure and it's really getting into the mainstream right now it has a lot

00:49:25.120 of strengths has a lot of things that people should be wary of as a new as a

00:49:28.900 newer technology and of course people are probably a little more generally

00:49:33.340 familiar with bitcoin and ethereum and that but the cryptocurrency evolves

00:49:38.380 technologically as well and the crypto that we're actually basing on our

00:49:43.300 platform off of is Algorand and so with the different kinds of cryptos out

00:49:49.060 there Algorand is really the leading or at the leading edge of technology and

00:49:55.540 in cryptocurrency and what that really means is you can get your transactions

00:49:59.500 processed in a couple of seconds. Its Algorand is highly secure. It's never been hacked.

00:50:07.180 And it's entirely scalable as well. And your transaction fees are minimal, a couple of pennies

00:50:14.060 per transaction. So what we've done is we've created a marketplace for all of these digital

00:50:20.620 assets to be transacted. And so if you think of it like a digital eBay, where you can buy and sell

00:50:29.180 all kinds of cryptocurrencies and other assets as well, including non-fungible tokens.

00:50:36.060 Fortunately, in the crypto space and with some of those really leading-edge investors, we've

00:50:41.020 enjoyed a lot of support from them. Ultimately, we're hoping to become a public company here in

00:50:47.500 the next handful of months. Your platform, I guess you could call it, just became live

00:50:54.220 recently. And I know you were quite nerved out as it was approaching as any new venture. I mean,

00:50:58.940 you guys have been working on it for a long time and that took off quite successfully.

00:51:03.180 Yeah, it really did. We are, with Algorand being one of the top cryptocurrencies out there,

00:51:09.260 there was a lot of demand in the ecosystem, in the community for a product like what we're

00:51:15.500 providing to be able to transact different securities. And so, yeah, we just launched

00:51:20.540 it a little over a week ago i guess it was we had kind of a test net kind of version um so we've

00:51:27.180 launched on on mainnet now uh we've got tens of thousands of of users and tens of thousands of

00:51:32.780 trades and um hundreds of thousands of different unique ip addresses and and wallets uh checking

00:51:40.140 the website and it's not even uh available at this moment in in canada and the us uh we'll be

00:51:47.340 rolling that out very shortly but it's most of the interest is frankly from all around the world

00:51:53.580 we have so many people from Southeast Asia in particular that are that are looking at using

00:52:01.460 this and able to transact and send money around the world and really just to give a bit of a

00:52:06.120 people kind of wonder about like what's the use case for this and how can I how can I use it or

00:52:11.060 why should I even use use cryptocurrency and if you think about just a simple example of

00:52:15.600 you want to send some money to somewhere and you want you want to go go to your bank and and

00:52:21.980 you know wire some money to someone sometimes that can take even a few weeks depending on on

00:52:28.960 the currency that you're you're using and with using something like a cryptocurrency or

00:52:35.000 to a buyer and a seller you can do that almost instantaneously and almost little to no cost

00:52:43.100 So it's almost as quick as a snap of a finger.

00:52:46.040 And I think crypto will become more in use as time goes on

00:52:50.980 as we're seeing just our government fiscal

00:52:53.400 and monetary policies blow up our government balance sheets.

00:52:58.420 We're looking at interest rates starting to rise

00:53:00.700 possibly a little bit.

00:53:02.280 I'm a little skeptical on that

00:53:03.540 because the governments are the biggest indebtors.

00:53:05.740 And of course they would be the biggest payers

00:53:07.260 of that interest.

00:53:08.300 So, and they happen to control the central bank.

00:53:10.500 So it's sort of like.

00:53:12.840 So, and there's interesting questions as it's coming up. I mean, I think a lot of what people

00:53:16.120 are concerned about too, though, is security. And I see a commenter, Jim and Judy and Jim

00:53:20.780 Juratowski, wondering about, you know, she's hearing, and I mean, there's a lot of confusion

00:53:25.460 going on that even, you know, these cryptocurrencies, digital currencies could be seized or frozen

00:53:30.520 by the government at this time. Can that happen? Or is it, from what I kind of gathered, is

00:53:37.480 they can get your bank accounts and things, but if you've got it in an independent wallet,

00:53:40.900 but they're out of reach of the government at least.

00:53:42.720 Yeah, and you know, this is actually the value

00:53:45.560 of what, you know, a centralized exchange versus decentralized.

00:53:50.560 And one of the strengths in the crypto world

00:53:54.320 is this decentralized, it's called decentralized marketplaces

00:54:01.480 and that, and what that means is

00:54:05.080 no one actually has control.

00:54:07.560 For us, with Algodex, which is the platform

00:54:11.800 that Algonaut owns, Algodex is decentralized.

00:54:16.300 We actually don't know who the users are.

00:54:18.320 We have no custody of any of the assets.

00:54:20.360 If the government came and told us today

00:54:22.940 that we'd have to freeze some users' bank accounts

00:54:27.380 or assets, we actually cannot do that.

00:54:29.740 There's actually no way for us to actually do that.

00:54:33.460 So as an individual, as long as you are more,

00:54:37.560 know that you're invested in a or hold your assets in a wallet that is you know of this

00:54:44.300 decentralized nature then you can always keep control of it and the government actually can't

00:54:50.200 go after you we have seen a couple of cases where some hackers like there was a colonial pipeline

00:54:56.260 ransom event where they wanted to the hackers actually use bitcoin and bitcoin through tremendous

00:55:06.600 government resources was able to be tracked down and that ransom actually

00:55:12.420 brought back so you have to be if you're extremely concerned about that

00:55:18.480 government seizure you just need to have a good idea of what how you hold your

00:55:23.200 money and and your assets and then it's in a decentralized type of function

00:55:29.460 rather than a centralized one great and the practicalities you know that's I see

00:55:33.480 donna johnston that another commenter and you started on that you know i mean it's a good way

00:55:37.640 the old days if you wanted to send money across to somebody you'd have to go to western union and

00:55:40.680 pay a terrific fee to to send them now you could do e-transfers with the bank but if people aren't

00:55:45.960 comfortable with the bank aside from those though i mean when are we going to get more to day-to-day

00:55:50.520 use then if you've got a lot of your assets in a digital form yeah you know right now there's

00:55:55.720 you're starting to see some uh credit card issuers where you're able to actually it's like a prepaid

00:56:01.400 credit card where you can use cryptocurrency as the asset that's held, kind of like if it was a

00:56:07.080 Canadian dollar prepaid credit card, starting to see that out there a bit. But really, this is one

00:56:14.340 of the differentiators of the technology that we use versus Bitcoin or Ethereum. So ideally,

00:56:21.900 for crypto to be used in a common society type of perspective, you need to be able to go to the

00:56:29.920 coffee shop buy coffee for a dollar and it's only going to cost you like a tenth of a penny or so

00:56:36.040 in a transaction fee kind of like paying with your visa be as fast as paying with visa but right now

00:56:41.580 if you use bitcoin it can take you up to an hour for that transaction to be final which means you

00:56:46.800 have to stand at the till for an hour and that's not going to work for anyone either you your

00:56:51.380 coffee's awful cold doesn't work for the for the vendor and you know your transaction fee depending

00:56:55.940 on how busy the network is, your transaction rates fluctuate. So it's not just a percentage

00:57:04.440 of the transaction, but your $1 coffee may end up costing you $10 because the transaction fee

00:57:12.000 is $9. So with a platform that we use, that transaction fee is always going to just be

00:57:18.680 a couple of pennies. The transaction's closed in a couple of seconds. And that's the kind of

00:57:25.220 technological progress that,

00:57:28.220 at least on the Algorand protocol that we use,

00:57:31.420 that we can start to bring towards more retailers.

00:57:35.700 And it opens up a lot of things, opportunities for us,

00:57:39.100 frankly, on Algodex,

00:57:40.620 because as another level of service

00:57:43.280 that we're wanting to bring out

00:57:45.460 is the ability to actually transact stocks and bonds

00:57:50.820 and real estate and all kinds of other assets.

00:57:55.220 even to the extent that we could, and I'm not going to get into non-fungible tokens too much,

00:58:01.060 but your house, for example, I could put an offer out on your house, Corey, and just like a standing

00:58:09.700 bid. And if you saw, oh, someone's put an offer out of my house, you might choose to accept that

00:58:15.380 or not. And that transaction could happen extremely quickly. Yeah, as you said, it's broader. It's an

00:58:21.700 eBay sort of thing. It's a little complicated. A fair question out of Cheryl Dawn though,

00:58:26.660 how does Algonaut make their money? As you said, there's a transaction fee and then of course

00:58:30.420 you're there to make money and people are worried about that. What's a fair amount of charge or such?

00:58:38.260 There's a couple of different methods. We're in heavy investment mode right now actually,

00:58:44.180 as I'll put it, but with the platform,

00:58:47.920 there will eventually be some transactional fees,

00:58:51.560 but right now it's no charge to actually use it.

00:58:54.940 And so if you're transacting,

00:58:56.320 there's no transaction fees for us,

00:58:59.340 other than Algorand has that little small

00:59:02.180 sort of a couple of pennies transaction fee.

00:59:06.060 But we're working on building market share

00:59:08.040 and trying to build up the user base.

00:59:10.000 So there's, as more users come in,

00:59:11.560 then there's more liquidity

00:59:12.760 and there's more assets that are trading,

00:59:14.660 and we've become kind of a one-stop shop

00:59:16.640 for people to buy and sell various kinds of assets.

00:59:22.520 Okay, and yeah, Ken was asking about other services

00:59:25.320 and things, I guess, automated deposits,

00:59:28.020 say for, you know, can't a pension deposit

00:59:29.960 to an account, things like that.

00:59:31.480 Yeah, yeah, so how it really works is you have a wallet,

00:59:37.220 I mean, you can imagine like you have your wallet right now

00:59:40.260 in your back pocket or in your purse or something.

00:59:43.280 And from a digital perspective,

00:59:46.240 you would go onto the exchange

00:59:48.720 and then you can spend some money

00:59:51.500 or you can sell something

00:59:52.760 then you get that cryptocurrency back into your wallet.

00:59:56.800 And then if you want,

00:59:57.640 you can convert that back into your regular bank account

01:00:01.240 or just keep it in your wallet and let it grow,

01:00:05.460 hopefully grow from there.

01:00:07.540 So that's kind of a simple thing.

01:00:09.300 And then what this technology allows us to do

01:00:12.860 is once we can roll out something

01:00:16.840 as a more payment processing type of platform,

01:00:19.760 which may well be in our future as well,

01:00:23.520 then you start establishing relationships

01:00:25.380 with a lot of like the Tim Hortons I see referenced here

01:00:29.380 by Coffee at Tim Hortons.

01:00:31.100 And we'll probably have to launch that

01:00:33.660 on a very pilot basis, but we're not there yet,

01:00:37.340 but we've got a big tech and engineering team

01:00:40.980 that we're constantly hiring for.

01:00:42.640 So backend engineer coders, we're hiring,

01:00:45.780 send us your resumes, check us out.

01:00:48.220 Yeah, we're all in growth mode, which is a good thing.

01:00:50.460 I mean, things change fast.

01:00:51.780 I mean, for those of us who are getting a little grayer

01:00:53.580 in that, remember it was inconceivable

01:00:55.660 that you could make a point of sale purchase

01:00:57.420 with a debit card or a credit card

01:00:59.860 without signing and presenting ID.

01:01:01.540 And it just seemed almost overnight,

01:01:04.540 but it took a few years and suddenly bang,

01:01:06.500 we're tapping for purchases.

01:01:07.940 We, I gotta admit, I rarely carry cash anymore.

01:01:11.540 Yeah, I agree.

01:01:13.160 And you know, even the speed of technology

01:01:15.180 and how it's improving and really bringing people together.

01:01:18.240 I mean, you think about Facebook,

01:01:19.300 Facebook's maybe 10 years old now.

01:01:21.840 And it's like ubiquitous throughout society.

01:01:24.420 Now you think of it's just like this natural thing,

01:01:27.380 but you know, you go back 15, 20 years

01:01:29.440 and you know, it's the pace of technology

01:01:33.260 is just, it's quite something.

01:01:34.780 I mean, that's one of our slogans really

01:01:37.140 is digitally connecting anyone to everyone.

01:01:39.600 And that's really true on a global basis.

01:01:41.480 Like I can't tell you how many conference calls

01:01:44.760 and meetings I have with people all around the world.

01:01:48.160 Like we have tens of thousands of people

01:01:50.480 in these social media groups that follow us.

01:01:52.860 And it's Indonesia and Vietnam and Poland and Croatia

01:01:57.260 and China and Hong Kong and Taiwan, New Zealand, everywhere.

01:02:00.780 It's amazing.

01:02:01.620 It can be useful for companies

01:02:02.540 that are import and export, you're dealing with foreign.

01:02:03.780 I mean, you're not dealing with differences in exchange values as well because you're using the same currency.

01:02:09.640 But along that, there's another area people are concerned about.

01:02:11.740 I mean, Bitcoin values have been, you know, like a seesaw and a number of other digital currencies.

01:02:17.260 And how do you mitigate that risk?

01:02:20.160 I mean, I know part of it is people make a living out of that.

01:02:22.420 That's what the marketplace, if you want to, you know, try and buy in and sell at highs and lows like anything else, you can do that.

01:02:28.300 But if you're looking for practical use, you don't want to suddenly see your savings drop in half.

01:02:31.960 No. Well, and that's just, you know, that's one of the things with Bitcoin, for example, is you do get that volatility with a lot of cryptos that you can buy. You do get that volatility. And so when you think about, you know, your Canadian dollar, you know, we see the reports of the Canadian dollar. Oh, the Canadian dollar is up half a penny today. Oh, my God, it's a big move. Well, that's a couple of minutes in crypto world. So there's different kinds of cryptocurrencies. It's kind of a misnomer to just think they're all the same.

01:02:59.840 so like bitcoin is is really just like digital gold um it but it doesn't have a lot of use cases

01:03:07.800 algorand is much more of like a programming language and then you have other types of

01:03:13.700 cryptos called stable coins which are are tagged to the value of say the u.s dollar or or even the

01:03:19.960 canadian dollar um most commonly the u.s dollar and so that's probably the most stable way to keep

01:03:26.940 your assets in the cryptocurrency world, but on a more stable type of currency. Like, for example,

01:03:35.780 look up USDC if you were wanting to have your assets in crypto, but tied to the US dollar.

01:03:44.500 Yeah. Okay. And I mean, it's just people look at stability. And if you're looking at the long game,

01:03:48.680 I mean, some of the ups and downs are fine with some of the currencies. It all depends on the

01:03:51.280 individual use you want to do in the world, I guess. And as you pointed out, which is worth

01:03:55.380 noting that there's a number of different ones and they'd have different

01:03:57.700 applications you know not saying one's bad or poor it depends on what you want

01:04:01.320 yeah and Algorand for us it's really it's it's like a an enhanced programming

01:04:06.500 language it's kind of like you in computer world you had you know basic as

01:04:10.680 your original language and now you've got all of these new programming

01:04:14.280 languages like TO and C++ and Python and and I will leave that to the

01:04:20.820 yeah sure I'll finish with one more question because it's still I mean we're

01:04:23.700 ironing out a bit because I've always still been a little confused and the more we talk the more it

01:04:27.940 makes sense but somebody saying is this primarily an investment or a banking service that you guys

01:04:32.020 are providing I guess? Yeah so I want to be clear like we're a marketplace allowing people to

01:04:38.180 transact back and forth and in terms of are we an investment well Algonaut is or will be hopefully

01:04:46.260 a public company we're going through the listing process on a Canadian stock exchange in the next

01:04:50.820 few months and so that holding company you would be able to invest in in the

01:04:55.860 stock but we also have algodex and algodex his tokens that that do trade in

01:05:04.100 in the in the crypto sphere we'll be launching that actually in the next

01:05:07.080 month or so so you know check out our website for for updates on on that okay

01:05:13.440 yeah you mentioned those non-fungible tokens and I don't that's a whole

01:05:17.680 separate show that's a confusing area it's a huge growth area though that's

01:05:21.040 happening over you will have a talk about that at another time because

01:05:24.340 that's another big part of what you guys are going to be sitting yeah we're

01:05:27.160 sitting it well we already have the functionality to transact all those

01:05:30.440 NFTs you know there's a lot of NFTs out there that are basically like you know

01:05:34.720 graphics artists creating little interesting animals and headshots

01:05:39.220 There was a girl selling farts in a jar, actually, she made a fortune, which is, again, fodder for another show.

01:05:45.440 They took your idea, Corey.

01:05:46.980 I don't think I could find a market for it, but either way, we're getting in an interesting world of where different assets can be traded in ways that we never imagined before.

01:05:56.600 And then a piece of art, you know, versus some of the more grisly things that have been going around.

01:06:00.520 Where do you trade these safely like anything else or invests?

01:06:04.000 And, you know, and that's the important thing with the evolution of all of this.

01:06:07.200 I mean like it's extremely important for us to be compliant and compliant with you know the

01:06:11.760 regulations around the world. I mean really we operate a global business so you know we are so

01:06:17.760 cognizant of being remaining compliant and compliant for our for not not just for ourselves

01:06:24.720 but our customers as as well. So that's why it's not Algodex isn't available to trade yet in in

01:06:31.600 Canada and the US, but we will shortly here because we want to make sure that we are fully

01:06:37.780 compliant. Because I would say in probably a little more of the old Wild West days of crypto

01:06:43.660 that there wasn't a lot of regulation around that. And so there were a lot of things that

01:06:49.060 were being transacted and done that wouldn't be on the up and up, I would say.

01:06:55.100 Fortunately, so I mean, it's stabilizing. Well, thanks for coming in and explaining much more

01:06:59.260 about what Algonaut and Algodex and Algorand are all about.

01:07:03.140 And we'll look forward to seeing the business develop as time goes there, Jeff.

01:07:06.460 Yeah. Well, thanks for having me, Corey.

01:07:07.680 All right.

01:07:08.160 All right.

01:07:08.580 Thanks, everyone.

01:07:10.540 Algodex is owned by Algonaut.

01:07:12.300 This is great new technology just coming online now in the digital currency world.

01:07:18.100 Algodex is a great way for you to use the digital currency Algorand in your day-to-day transactions.

01:07:25.360 Can you imagine a world where we don't have to buy a cup of coffee using the federal dollar?

01:07:30.760 And you don't even have to use the American federal dollar.

01:07:32.980 You don't have to use the euro or the pound sterling.

01:07:35.980 You can use real money, digital currencies that are not at the beck and call of governments and inflation.

01:07:42.080 The Algodex is making digital currencies usable in a day-to-day basis.

01:07:51.080 Great. So yeah, that was Jeff Calloway, as you saw with the ad.

01:07:54.100 and he is a sponsor, you know, full disclosure, but I'm trying to keep it careful. As Jeff said

01:07:58.900 too, there's other digital currencies out there. Some might be good for some and some not for

01:08:03.200 others, but it's a developing whole market and world. And people are looking for new places

01:08:10.700 to take their assets, to take their investment, to keep their money. We're seeing it's at risk

01:08:15.940 terribly with the seizure from the federal government as it sits. Or as Jeff also pointed

01:08:21.500 out, we might see interest rates rising, which will suddenly nail you. Or as somebody else

01:08:27.180 pointed out in the comments, though, yeah, if the government doesn't want that, because

01:08:29.400 they'll suddenly start paying money. No, the taxpayers will pay more money. But the government

01:08:33.640 would rather that money went into some of their own pet projects rather than on debt

01:08:37.220 interest. So they don't have much interest in having interest rates go higher than they

01:08:42.580 have to, I would think. I mean, we just can't trust government with bloody anything these

01:08:46.300 days. So either way, follow up on that. If you're more interested, you know, we like

01:08:49.660 to expand those discussions, even if they're a bit dry, because it's important. And we're in a world

01:08:54.160 moment of insecurity like we haven't seen before. Let's talk about government. I'm looking at some

01:09:00.440 of these other news articles. This is from Black Locks. So auditors have uncovered widespread

01:09:05.060 irregularities in the use of government-issued charge cards when Canadian diplomats go abroad.

01:09:09.800 So when they go to those great love-ins, such as in Davos and so on, or I think the other one was

01:09:16.380 in Dublin recently, was it? Or it was in Ireland, but you know, environmental summits and things

01:09:21.860 like that where their friends and family, the government can go and live in luxury and pat

01:09:26.080 themselves on the back and feel self-important. Well, the audit showed these employees are billing

01:09:30.900 taxpayers unsurprisingly for things like liquor, jewelry, and hospitality expenses. So 30, what is

01:09:39.140 it? 31% of the sample had insufficient document to demonstrate compliance with policies and

01:09:44.620 directives. If you worked for a private company, and they sent you overseas to do some business,

01:09:51.600 and of course, you expense some things, it makes sense, that's fine, you're doing your job.

01:09:56.020 But if you come back and 31% of your documentation doesn't show you complied with, you know, what

01:10:00.520 you're allowed to spend on, your company is going to say, that's coming out of your paycheck. And

01:10:05.120 if it's too high, we're going to call the police. It's fraud. Now, in this case, many cases of

01:10:10.680 receipts and invoices alone were insufficient to determine compliance because often the context

01:10:15.580 within which the transaction took place was missing. And that's part of it. So, I mean,

01:10:20.880 if you bought a dinner because you were meeting with somebody important, fair enough, you know,

01:10:26.620 it happens in business, it happens in government and you expensed it. And that means some liquor

01:10:30.220 got expensed. It might be understandable, but you have to explain the context. Otherwise,

01:10:35.400 maybe you were just partying. Was it a business-related meal or were you trying to pick

01:10:41.260 someone up? What were you doing with it? So they investigated 929,000, a million dollars worth.

01:10:47.500 And people say, oh, it's just a drop in the bucket of government. Look, it's our money

01:10:49.740 and they're stealing it. And as I said, if you were in a private market, you would be audited.

01:10:58.040 They would follow up. You'd be fired or it would come out of your check or you could be charged.

01:11:02.180 So these guys, out of that $900,000, you know, $12,000 of it was on booze.

01:11:07.660 $14,000 was just marked as leisure costs.

01:11:10.300 And this is just the stuff, you know, 30% of it, they didn't even know what the heck it was.

01:11:14.860 $117 for jewelry.

01:11:16.120 That's pretty small, but what the hell are they buying jewelry for?

01:11:18.560 How can you expense that?

01:11:20.300 That's where our money's going, guys.

01:11:21.840 This is where Trudeau's little crowd.

01:11:22.940 When we talked about before, the people who do the cannon fodder runs for office for the liberals and things like that,

01:11:30.080 what happens, their rewards.

01:11:30.960 they get these sorts of jobs. And this is the sort of stuff they do. You know, let's see,

01:11:36.020 $20,000, $23,000 spent under budget line items identified as health and beauty.

01:11:42.740 What? Haircuts? I guess, you know, Trudeau's hair is probably expensive. Those false eyebrows,

01:11:47.880 whatever they're doing with him. It wasn't Trudeau over though. This was his diplomats.

01:11:52.600 What do you mean health and beauty? Oh, spa time? Makeovers? Makeup? Perfume? Is that really what

01:12:00.320 we're supposed to be paying for? $27,699 for, in quotes, personal purchases. Cheryl says Botox.

01:12:09.400 I've been thinking of trying that. Nobody's going to pay me to get the crow's feet away from my eyes.

01:12:14.300 So, I mean, that might be where some of it went, though. You know, I guess that's the health and

01:12:17.360 beauty. Probably actually literally is, I guess. You know, expensive things. Hit a clinic while

01:12:21.460 over there. Get your Botox before you go. $98,000 for hospitality. You know, $27,700 for in quotes

01:12:31.180 personal purchases. Well, doesn't just the nature of it being personal purchases means it's not

01:12:36.500 expensable? This is how they're managing your money. It's supposed to be your money. $164,000

01:12:43.860 in airline tickets. But you see, these were expensed above and beyond the trip. That's why

01:12:48.400 it's in their expenses, not in, I mean, their tickets are covered. These guys fly first class

01:12:52.400 already. So I don't know what this is. Well, I got a good idea. They tend to like flying their

01:12:57.240 family members, friends, mistresses, whatever it might be for their trip out there and they

01:13:01.760 expense it and they get away with it. These are the people that have us under a state of emergency.

01:13:08.880 These are the ones who are stealing your money or daring to donate to things. This is extremely,

01:13:16.200 extremely disturbing yet this is where we're at. How about some other things in the news? You know

01:13:21.120 it's been a few weeks since the protests began and now have been ripped down but you know at the

01:13:28.260 start of it there were some people screaming and yelling saying it's also going to be a super

01:13:31.620 spreader. Look at all these unmasked people getting together in Ottawa. They're all gathered.

01:13:35.220 Has there been a spike in cases in Ottawa? You know we are forgetting COVID now over all these

01:13:38.740 protests and everything. We're forgetting the numbers. What's been happening? Was it a super

01:13:41.940 spreader as they've been spreading mass casualties through Ottawa due to the shared hot tubs and

01:13:47.260 bouncy castles. Yeah, I hate sharing hot tubs anyways. I'm sure there's a few things you can

01:13:51.240 mix, but COVID wasn't a problem. The numbers are going down in Ontario. They're going down

01:13:55.140 everywhere. It's gone down. We should be laying off the public rather than cracking down further,

01:14:02.800 but either way, all of those fears that people were trying to spread did not come to be. They

01:14:09.020 didn't happen. We're all safe. There was no super spreader. Let's get on to, I got to talk about

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01:15:43.060 all enjoying firearms as well of course

01:15:44.980 they should be enjoying those rights and the government's trying to take them

01:15:48.780 so a lot of freedom talk

01:15:51.920 there's going to be a lot more tomorrow I'm going to have a political scientist

01:15:55.280 on Marco Navarro-Gini

01:15:57.020 and we're going to talk about again the implications of maintaining this emergencies

01:16:01.380 act and carrying on and I'm going to talk with Cameron James of Indy News Now. If you remember

01:16:05.960 him from last week he was on the ground in Ottawa giving us updates from the protests as the police

01:16:10.860 were moving in on them. We're going to be speaking with him and getting his summary of what he's

01:16:15.100 seen, what he's currently seeing. He's still out there, that's his turf. It'll be you know of course

01:16:20.760 enlightening. We don't get a clear picture from the mainstream media. We need guys like Cameron

01:16:25.380 out there, get on the ground and cut through the BS and give us direct news on those sorts of

01:16:29.900 things. So be sure to tune back in tomorrow, guys, at 1130 AM Mountain Standard Time. We've

01:16:36.780 got good guests. I'll have more rants. And later on tonight, we will have another episode of The

01:16:41.260 Pipeline where Dave, Derek, and I are going to discuss a number of issues. Thanks for tuning in.

01:16:46.220 We'll see you all tomorrow.

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